Iro Mylonakou - Keke is a Professor of Social Pedagogy at the Department of Pedagogy and Primary Education (PDPE) of School of Education at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in Greece.

She studied Educational Studies, Pedagogy, Business Administration, Marketing, Music, and Music Kinetic Education.

Her academic interests include: Innovative Social Pedagogical Approaches, School, Family and Community Collaboration, Interdisciplinary synergies betweenSocial Pedagogy and: Social Neuroscience, Education and Law, Development of Creativity in Education and in Society, The psychopedagogical utilisation of children drawings, Teachers’ education and professional development.

She has published a number of books (16) and has contributed several articles (in excess of 130) to various international and national peer-reviewed journals and publications pertaining to her aforementioned academic interests. Among other editorial activities, she was theGuest Editor of the first Special Issue of the International Journal of Social Pedagogy titled ‘’Social Pedagogy in times of crisis in Greece’’ (2015, London: UCL Press /Institute of Education).

She has overseen and conducted numerous research programmes, which led to the creation of three Models: Α) Transdisciplinary Social Pedagogic Model / “Syn-epistemic Wholeness” (focused on dialectic synergies among disciplines, epistemologies, methodologies, research strategies, practices, ways of learning, knowledge and among scientists, researchers and all other stakeholders); Β) Social Pedagogical Intervention Model for Refugee families by Students / SPIM4ReSt Model (with a focus on the emotional and social education and support of unaccompanied refugee children and refugee families by the students) and C) Syneducation Model [with emphasis on interactive education, mutual mentoring, collaborative learning between children and adults, in collaboration with Ioannis Kekes, with whom they coined the term “Syneducation (Synergy + education)” in 2005].

In 2015, she founded the first Master’s Programme in Greece with the title: “Social Neuroscience, Social Pedagogy and Education” (joint collaboration between the Pedagogical Department of Primary Education, the School of Medicine and the Department of Biology of the NKUA), which she directs to this day.

She is also Director of the Laboratory of Experimental Pedagogy at the PDPE of the NKUA.

She was the NKU representative for Innovative Pedagogies at CIVIS / European Civic University.

She collaborates regularly with distinguished Universities abroad where she has been a research fellow and a visiting professor multiple time.